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Overall Value
Summary
The Wall Street Journal digital edition is one of the biggest subscriber-based services online today. If you are looking for an excellent go-to financial resource, the digital WSJ could be precisely what you’ve been looking for in an app.
Pros
- An easy-to-use app on computer, tablet, or smartphone.
- It includes both hard-hitting journalism and entertaining articles.
- Price is on par with other popular financial publications that do not offer as much news as the WSJ.
- Subscribers can access the archives, which can be useful for research purposes.
- Discounts are often available for new subscribers.
- Adding the paper version to your subscription is quite affordable.
Cons
- Costs are notable – even your first article each month is behind a paywall.
- You may feel that the paper leans one way or the other politically.
- Cancellation involves as phone call.
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news. It is published 6 days a week in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal. The Journal is the largest newspaper in the United States by circulation. According to the Alliance for Audited Media, it has a circulation of about 2.4 million copies (including nearly 900,000 digital subscriptions), as of March 2013, compared with USA Todays 1.7 million. Its main rival in the business newspaper sector is the London-based Financial Times, which also publishes several international editions. The Journal primarily covers American economic and international business topics, and financial news and issues. Its name derives from Wall Street, located in New York City, which is the heart of the financial district; it has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. The newspaper version has won the Pulitzer Prize thirty-four times, including 2007 prizes for its reporting on backdated stock options and the adverse effects of China’s booming economy. In 2011, The Wall Street Journal was ranked No. 1 in BtoB’s Media Power 50 for the 12th consecutive year.